ampendix

appendix, ĭcis, f (acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 21 Müll., earlier ampendix, m.; v. ampendices) [appendo].

I.

That which hangs to any thing, an appendage.

A.

Lit., App. M. 8, p. 211, 27; 5, p. 169, 10.—More freq.,

B.

Trop., an addition, supplement, or accession to any thing, Varr R. R. 1, 16, 1; cf. id. ib. 3, 9, 2: vidit enim appendicem animi esse corpus, * Cic. Hort. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 42, 9:

exigua appendix Etrusci belli,

Liv. 9, 41 (cf. accessio):

appendices majoris muneris,

id. 39, 27:

appendices Olcadum,

id. 21, 5.—

II.

A thorny shrub, the barberrybush: Berberis vulgaris, Linn.; Plin. 24, 13, 70, § 114.